Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-207) and index

Commencing a revolution : anarchism and American society -- True freedom : anarchist womanhood -- No purely feminine women : anarchist feminism -- A ring of gold : love, sex, and marriage -- Successful propagandists : anarchist activism -- No illusions : the anarchist life of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Neither heroines or heroes : radicals and feminist politics

"The anarchist-feminists and their ideology possess a significance that extends beyond anarchism and nineteenth-century popular images of it. This book examines the women who espoused anarchism and what they believed, but more importantly it seeks to understand the unique ways in which a group of women responded to the social, sexual, and economic upheavals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The antistatist, antiauthoritarian, decentralist visions of the anarchists are an integral part of our intellectual heritage. What the women anarchists tried to do is an important part of the history of the intellectual roots of the women's movement"--Book jacket

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